Radiation Oncology Physics

Category 4: Calibration, quality control, and quality assurance

• Absolute calibration protocols for external beam.
• Quality assurance procedures for mechanical, dosimetry and safety characteristics of the delivery system, QA equipment, recommendations and requirements.
• Treatment machine acceptance testing and commissioning, performance specifications, measurement equipment and techniques.
• Brachytherapy (LDR and HDR) calibration and QA, commissioning, calibration, procedures, and equipment.
• Photon beam definitions, beam characteristics and dependencies. Treatment planning system commissioning, QA, and software updates.
• In-vivo dosimetry, small field dosimetry and measurements, End to End QA, IMRT dosimetry, VMAT dosimetry.